When we were little, my sister and I were told that if we trod on the cracks in the pavement, then a lion would come out and gobble us up.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.— Nina
- I used to believe that dandelions where baby lions and if you trod on one it would bite your foot.— alice
- I used to think that a sea lion was a hybrid of a seal and a lion.Anon
- I used to believe that the reflection at the bottom of cup of liquid was a crocodile waiting to gobble me up.— Aaron
- I used to believe that dirt roads just needed to be swept (to reveal the pavement underneath). — KSAM
- I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah